Our professional team of psychologists can help you improve key issues and concerns in your life

Our psychologists are registered with all the major private healthcare service providers, with the TAC and with Workcover. We also provide Employee Assistance Programs and Customised Professional Development Programs.

Our customised workplace enhancement programs have been transforming workplaces for more than 20 years.

Our team of organisational development consultants provide a wealth of experience in change management, career and leadership coaching, professional supervision, talent management, recruitment/assessment, workplace engagement and culture change as well as development and training

Cairnmillar Institute supports a vibrant community of academics and clinicians conducting research in diverse areas of Psychology.

We aspire to be leaders in clinical and ‘translational’ research: taking basic psychological theory and empirical findings, and turning them into evaluated and applied outcomes for the benefit of the community. We invite queries to collaborate and contribute to our research programs and funding.

PSYCHOLOGY CLINICS

Effective Working with Overwhelm, High Level of Stress and Emotional Distancing

Helping clients effectively and immediately deal with overwhelm and high level of stress

Many clients present to therapy in a state of overwhelm or being distant from their emotional experiencing. In both ways, they are stuck in a ‘reactive state’ and unable to process what they are experiencing and make adaptive choices in their life situations.

This workshop provides experiential learning of the process called “ClearingaSpace” that has been developed as an initial step of the Focusing process and as a stand-alone process in the context of Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) with many applications. Various research studies have confirmed the effectiveness of Clearing a Space process in:

Immediate reduction of a high level of stress

Efficient dealing with a state of overwhelm, overstimulation and numbing

Facilitating a sense of self that is separate from the problems, which enables instantaneous a shift of the whole experience of the problems

Providing incremental release of the bodily tension

Dealing with sleeping problems

Promoting the sense of wellbeing in people recovering from cancer and other challenging health issues

Promoting the students’ learning in all educational settings

As a tool for a mental hygiene for all health professionals

On the completion of the workshop, participants would be able to apply the Clearing a Space process in their personal life and professionally.

Our Trainers

Ms Biliana Dearly is a psychotherapist, supervisor and educator who has experience in working with people of all walks of life presenting with wide range of problems, including working with couples, students and other health professionals. She has a special interest in experiential, process oriented therapy and working with the ‘whole person’. Biliana is a Certifying Coordinator for The International Focusing Institute, USA.